Doug Ducey on Energy & Oil

Moratorium on new regulations; and review all existing ones

Last week, I signed an order placing a moratorium on new regulations in the executive branch. It was a good beginning, but only a beginning.

There is also the matter of many state regulations already in place, often for reasons that nobody even
remembers. Our small businesses have to deal with all these little rules all the time, just because they're on the books and nobody's bothered to change them.

I'm instructing the directors of every agency to conduct a top-to-bottom review of
regulations, and then to send me a list of all the ones we can do without. It's likely to be a long list. Wherever we find any regulation that is outdated, irrational, unfair, or destructive to free and honest enterprise in Arizona--that regulation will
be gone.

While they're at it, agency directors will also be reducing timeframes for permits and licenses. Our government needs to operate at the speed of business. And we have a Regulatory Review Council that's stacked with lobbyists?